Monthly Archives: January 2013

Where a defendant sought to withdraw her guilty pleas to charges of knowingly being present where heroin is kept, conspiracy and unlawful possession of cocaine, the judge properly denied her motions, as (1) the evidence established that the plea judge properly engaged in a colloquy and gave the statutory immigration warning and (2) plea counsel was not ineffective.

Where a care and protection action proceeding was instituted after a mother and her boyfriend brought her 5-week-old child to the hospital with multiple, unexplained bone fractures, the Juvenile Court properly found the mother unfit and awarded custody of the child to the father.

The Appeals Court has affirmed, pursuant to Rule 1:28, judgments in the following cases. Although the decisions do not appear to address any substantive issues of law, the full text of each decision may be ordered using the appropriate “Lawyers ...

The committee that backed this fall’s Right to Repair ballot question may stay in existence to lobby the Legislature on how the new law is implemented, the Office of Campaign & Political Finance has advised. But the OCPF says the ...

In a major milestone in the smartphone patent wars, a federal jury has found that Apple’s iPhone infringes on three patents with respect to the camera feature and the handling and rejection of calls. The case, which was tried in ...